Posted 2 years ago on Feb. 21, 2013, 6:13 a.m. EST by GirlFriday
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Making his first public appearance in New Orleans since he was hit with a sweeping federal bribery indictment last month, former Mayor Ray Nagin appeared at federal court Wednesday afternoon and pleaded not guilty to the 21 charges he faces. Nagin, dressed in a dark suit and accompanied by his lawyer, Robert Jenkins, entered his plea before U.S. Magistrate Judge Sally Shushan.

The shame of this is that the voters who repeatedly put them in office voted for all the wrong reasons. Why is it that the voting public continually fails at putting in the "best person" to do the job of representing the people? Both of these clowns deserve prison time and their embarrassed constituents should be shouting it from the roof tops. But I doubt that will happen. They will probably get their support to run again.

Answer: resignation to the status quo. There is a mentality in our large city that accepts corruption "because everyone does it" and "as long as he/she passes some of it ($) around". We need an active, educated voter who understands that you do get the mess you vote for when you don't pay attention or just vote for who they tell you to.